The Navajo Nation: A Brief Analysis

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Around seventeen million years ago the Navajo Nation was living in the what is now the Grand Canyon. Where the Navajo Nation was living at the time the ground was completely flat. When the Navajos originally arrived at the Grand Canyon there was a substantial water source for them. But after they had stayed there for several years they began to run low on their water source. Everyone in the Navajo Nation began to dig tenaciously because they knew if they kept digging they eventually would reach some type of water source. But they did not know how long it would take because the Navajos were not a very populous tribe. They were very determined to dig deep enough because they were very desperate for water.
The whole Navajo Nation dug for years,

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